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The grade may or may not be a "big deal" as you mention, but it is certainly and with total absolution, a reasonable thing to ask about. Do you agree?
by droithomme 7y ago
The grade may or may not be a "big deal" as you mention, but it is certainly and with total absolution, a reasonable thing to ask about. Do you agree?
- dougmwne 7y agoI don't agree. Interview time is limited and valuable. Sure, you could ask the candidate about anything thats not illegal to ask. But why waste time on irrelevancies? Asking about a single low grade when the candidate has an otherwise respectable GPA is just wasting a chance to ask a better question. If I saw a junior interviewer do it, I would be tempted to share some ideas of stronger questions to ask in the future. Experience: hundreds of interviews.
- droithomme 7y agoIt's not irrelevant to ask about this, it's a very legitimate point to bring up and can be quite productive to do so. Sorry you don't see how that is but clearly you're a bit dense and your company will be failing if it hasn't already done so assuming someone who thinks like you is actually in charge of all hiring as you claim. Do me a favor and pm me your stock ticker so I can short it. As far as interviews and economic value I'm sure I beat you on both metrics by a vast margin. Also pointless and silly, but you try to bring up your "hundreds" of interviews, LOL, sonny boy.
- Bahamut 7y agoIf it were something worth asking to figure out who is a good hire, maybe - however, it's viewed as irrelevant at most jobs, so why waste precious interviewing time asking about irrelevant grades? It's a waste of time, and thus unreasonable thing to ask about, wasting a candidate's time and the interviewer's time in revealing how little the interviewer knows about effective interviewing.
- pretendscholar 7y agoDepends on the relevance of the course to the job.